Yet another case of racial attack on the north east people in New Delhi touches of seismic wave of shick and anger. The latest incident took place in the Vasant Kunj area where a Mizo women was found dead under mysterious circumstances at Munrika apartment on Friday wee hours.
Police have already arrested her live-in partner Virender Singh. Singh told police that they had thrown a party of five friends and he went to see off his guests at night. But on his return, Juliet was found dead.
A Gurgaon-based call centre executive Julie shifted to the capital five years back and she has been living together with Virender in the apartment for the last couple of months. Delhi police have already questioned the five guests who attended the party.
27 May 2012 - 1:01pm | editor
The National Human Rights Commission will dispatch a delegation to hold a three-day camp sitting in Assam and Meghalaya from May 28 to reach out to far-flung areas. Led by its chairman Justice (Retd...
29 Nov 2014 - 6:34pm | AT News
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Guwahati-Mendhipothar train in Meghalaya at a function in Guwahati on Saturday.In his speech the prime minister stressed better rail connectivity in the...
21 Jun 2024 - 2:11pm | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
KOKRAJHAR, Assam: The 55th Rabha Divosh, commemorating the legacy of Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad Rabha, was celebrated with a series of programs across the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) districts on...
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Guwahati: Guwahati city police have arrested a private hospital owner with a lady doctor and a youth for allegedly conducting an abortion to a minor on Sunday night. Panbazaar Police has registered a...
The United Liberation Front of Asom has strongly criticized Sankadev Award for Sharmila Tagore a day after the film personality received the coveted award from president Pranab Mukherjee.In an e-mail statement, the banned insurgent outfit alleged that Tagore has hardly any contribution to Assamese language literature. According to ULFA, it has belittled the saint. ULFA further asked Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to explain the reasons for selecting Tagore’s name and to made the names of the panel members public.
President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Asom Ratna Award for 2012 to writer Mamoni Raisom Goswami posthumously and Srimanta Shankardev Award for the year 2008 to actress Sharmila Tagore in Guwahati on Monday.Dr Goswami’s brother received the award while the actress received the prestigious Sankardev award at a glittering ceremony in the afternoon at the Machkhowa. Then the President left for Pandu and attended the closing ceremony of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Pandu College at Guwahati, and the annual convocation of Assam University at Silchar on Tuesday. Earlier, Mukherjee landed at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at 12-30 noon to be...
Utter sensation prevails in Titabor where a six-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a tea garden. According to the FIR filed on the complaint of the girl's father, she was called out of her house in the labour lines of Rongdoi tea estate on Sunday by the accused. The victim’s father and locals have claimed that the incident took place due to the presence of illegal country liquor shops which attract miscreants to the area.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday ordered immediate steps to mitigate the woes of the Guwahati citizens in view of the flash floods causing major inconvenience in the city.Stung by open criticism, Gogoi held an emergent meeting with Guwahati Development Department Minister Ajanta Neog and GMDA Chairman Capt Robin Bordoloi and asked them to step in with measures to deal with artificial floods.He further suggested an expert committee to enable the Government to formulate a comprehensive policy to tackle the water woes.
President Pranab Mukherjee arrives in Guwahati on Monday on three days north east visit.Mukherjee landed at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at 12-30 noon to be received by Governor JB Patnaik and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.Then he left for the Raj Bhawan. In the afternoon, the president will confer the Asom Ratna Award for 2012 on writer Mamoni Raisom Goswami posthumously and Srimanta Shankardev Award for the year 2008 to actress Sharmila Tagore in Guwahati on May 13.The President will also attend the closing ceremony of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Pandu College at Guwahati, and the annual convocation of Assam University at Silchar on Tuesday.Then he will...
Basistha police have seized explosives on Sunday hours before Pranab Mukherjee’s visit on Sunday. These include some gelatin sticks, electric detonators seized during an intensified operation in the evening. Police arrested two youths in this connection. They were identified as Ranjit Rabha and Pratap Rajbanshi.
Normal life comes to a grinding halt in Guwahati following the incessant rains that inundated the city roads and by-lanes for the third consecutive day on Sunday.The RG Baruah Road, GNB Road, Chandmari and Silpukhuri and the Maniram Dewan Road have come under the surging rain waters. Parts of Ganeshguri and Panjabari are also feeling the heat of water logging.
The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) announces the premiere of 'Where there are no roads … ' at the India International Centre (Kamladevi Chattopadhyaya Block) on May 14, 2013 at 6.30 pm. Maulee Senapati is the Director and Cinematographer while Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee of C-nes and founder director of the Centre for NE Studies and Policy Research in Jamia Millia Islamia, is the producer and script-writer. The documentary will have its North-east premiere later this month, in Guwahati, on May 24 at Jyoti Chitrabon Studio, Kahilipara, at 6 pm. The film is about a unique experiment, a major innovative health campaign that reaches some of the most...
Maize farmers in Bongaigaon district threatened to commit suicide in protest against the spurious quality of maize seeds distributed to them by the state government.The maize plants bloomed fully in the 43,200 square feet land under plantation, there was hardly any yield in them, the farmers alleged. The poor production has pushed the 50-odd farmers to a severe financial crisis.But the farmers registered a record production last year by selling many quintals of produce in the market. The farmers threatened to end their lives without adequate compensation.
Police claimed to have captured a top Maoist leader on Thursday.Identified as Anukul Chandra Naskar, 65, a politburo member of the Maoist leader was taken into custody from Barak Valley Wednesday.Senior Superintendent of Police A.P. Tiwari said Naskar, popularly known as Pareshda, hailed from Balia in West Bengal's 24 South Pargana district.Naskar managed five states including Assam.
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